What's up with Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey? Yesterday Mukasey testified before the House Judiciary Committee. It was a general hearing about oversight, and most of the questions dealt with torture, water-boarding and so on.

But at one point, U.S. Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-Va.) asked a question on another topic. Read more

Some religious groups in Colorado are protesting a bill to ban discrimination in publicly funded jobs.

HB 1080, sponsored by House Majority Leader Alice Madden (D-Boulder), would forbid faith-based groups from discriminating based on disability, race, religion and sexual orientation when making employment decisions for publicly funded social service positions. Read more

Today is Super Tuesday. Naturally, the presidential candidates want to scare up every vote they can. As part of that effort, some of them spent the weekend appearing in churches.

During this election season, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has repeatedly expressed concern about church-based politicking. While we've focused most of our efforts on educating houses of worship, campaign officials have a role to play as well. Candidates and their staff members should not ask houses of worship to engage in possibly illegal activities. Read more

Mega-best-selling author John Grisham doesn't deliver public speeches often. But he made a recent exception for a massive national gathering of Baptists in Georgia.

At the "Celebration Of A New Baptist Covenant" in Atlanta over a three-day period, almost 15,000 Baptists from about 30 varying denominations and associations gathered to discuss how to become more involved with helping the less fortunate and less involved with internal divisiveness. Read more

One of my favorite political speeches is John F. Kennedy's 1960 address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. It was given at a time, not unlike today, when interest in the presidential candidates' religious beliefs seemed to trump focus on the real issues our nation faced. Read more

We wrote on Tuesday about President George W. Bush's renewed attention to school vouchers. In his State of the Union, Bush proposed $300 million in "Pell Grants for Kids" and said he'd organize a White House summit to save "faith-based" schools.

Bush's wife Laura and younger brother Jeb have also enlisted in the offensive. Read more